Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Avast (Part 1)

In this edition of the TLCS interview series, we discuss the immense vulnerabilities in B2C security. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience briefly to Avast. We’ve covered the company before and we’ll put that in context. From your perspective, do provide a little bit of summary and also a bit about yourself.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Kris Lahiri, Chief Security Officer, Egnyte (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I would like you to isolate the different security issues of a content platform and comment on each of them. What are the challenges? How do you differentiate? What are the issues we are dealing with in the current landscape? Kris Lahiri: I’m going to come at it from a little bit of

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Kris Lahiri, Chief Security Officer, Egnyte (Part 1)

Excellent conversation about the security aspects of content and data and the evolution of shadow IT. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Egnyte and yourself. Bear in mind that we have been covering Egnyte for a while. The audience have some idea. We are going to talk about Egnyte today in the

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Idaptive CEO Danny Kibel (Part 1)

Danny discusses Zero Trust access management. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Idaptive. Danny Kibel: I’m Danny Kibel. I’m the CEO of Idaptive. Idaptive is a new company that spun out earlier in the year out of Centrify, which is a cyber security leader in the identity and access management

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: BitSight CEO Tom Turner (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me see if I understood that. How do you work with board members? Is it a Board that has a dashboard about that company’s risk that you’re providing? Tom Turner: What we often see from our customers is they will use BitSight’s rating in the following form. A company will use its

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: BitSight CEO Tom Turner (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. What level of penetration do you have? How many companies are you rating in this mode? Tom Turner: We rate around 120,000 enterprises around the globe. Those ratings are consumed by about 1,200 global customers that use BitSight in one of our use cases around third-party risks. That’s looking at vendors in

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: BitSight CEO Tom Turner (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What are you measuring? Tom Turner: The measurements that we look at fall into four buckets, if you think about it in a somewhat non-technical way. The important thing is these are all outcomes. These are things that are happening; not things that might happen. We collect all of this information globally. The first bucket

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: BitSight CEO Tom Turner (Part 1)

Cyber security risk is growing exponentially. How do you measure and benchmark such risk? Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having your introduce yourself as well as BitSight to our audience. Tom Turner: I’m the CEO of BitSight Technologies. BitSight is a cyber security ratings company. We take a big data analytics approach to measuring the

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